Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon - 30% Discount Code

Fish · Post by **Fish** » 19 Mar 2022 5:43 pm

UPDATE JULY 1st: Yesterday the publisher announced a 30% discount for Buddy Emmons: Steel Guitar Icon using this code at their website. Promo Code F22UIP: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086786 Thank you everyone!

Joe Krumel · Post by **Joe Krumel** » 19 Mar 2022 5:53 pm

Respectfully standing in line. Thanks.

forrest klott · Post by **forrest klott** » 19 Mar 2022 6:15 pm

Fish,

THANK YOU for everything you did to see this through to fruition, it couldn’t have been easy!

Anxiously (yet also respectfully) waiting in line as well

Skeeter

Per Berner · Post by **Per Berner** » 19 Mar 2022 10:48 pm

Really looking forward to this. You deserve a medal, Steve!

Bill Ladd · Post by **Bill Ladd** » 20 Mar 2022 12:23 am

Quite looking forward to this! Thanks for your Herculean effort to bring this to fruition.

Marty Broussard · Post by **Marty Broussard** » 20 Mar 2022 2:13 am

Mine is pre-ordered. Thank you, Fish!!

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 20 Mar 2022 5:25 am

I did an Amazon pre order. Looking forward to the book. Thank You.

Jim Cooley · Post by **Jim Cooley** » 20 Mar 2022 6:04 am

I placed my order, somewhatkindasorta patiently waiting. Thank you, Fish.

Roger Rettig · Post by **Roger Rettig** » 20 Mar 2022 6:30 am

With all the tireless effort Steve has put in, I wanted to order the deluxe edition. Involuntary and enforced retirement has curbed my spending of late so I've had to opt for the paperback.

Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to this so much! Thanks again for your perseverance, Steve. I wish great success to what must have been a time-consuming project.

We're all in your debt.

Al Evans · Post by **Al Evans** » 20 Mar 2022 6:34 am

Order placed!

--Al Evans

Joe Krumel · Post by **Joe Krumel** » 20 Mar 2022 8:02 am

Just pre -ordered mine. thanks Steve for the many hours involved. It slipped my mind about the pre -order thing.It will be a good fall read!

Daniel Morris · Post by **Daniel Morris** » 21 Mar 2022 5:23 pm

Great to hear, Steve!
I'll be ordering a copy through my local independent bookshop (yes, some still exist).

William Davis · Post by **William Davis** » 23 Mar 2022 5:30 am

Got a hardback ordered for the permanent shelf. Thanks for all the hard work!

DALE WHITENER · Post by **DALE WHITENER** » 23 Mar 2022 4:00 pm

Pre-ordered from Amazon. Thanks for the hard work Fish .

Don Sulesky · Post by **Don Sulesky** » 12 Apr 2022 10:04 am

Ordered mine today.

Bruce Heffner · Post by **Bruce Heffner** » 12 Apr 2022 2:02 pm

thanks for the work

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 13 Apr 2022 2:41 am

Awesome! I'll be ordering a copy soon. Thanks!

Eric Duarte · Post by **Eric Duarte** » 17 Apr 2022 11:04 pm

Stoked. Any plans to release an audiobook version?

Lucky Oceans · Post by **Lucky Oceans** » 30 Apr 2022 5:26 am

Congratulations, Fish,

this is exciting news indeed!

best wishes,

Lucky

David Rogerson · Post by **David Rogerson** » 30 Apr 2022 3:26 pm

Great to hear Steve. After all your work to finally have it come to fruition.

Andy DePaule · Post by **Andy DePaule** » 7 Jun 2022 7:49 am

Looking Forward To This Arriving.
Just placed my order on Amazon.

Terry Wood · Post by **Terry Wood** » 28 Jun 2022 3:57 am

Ordered my copy a few days ago. Looking so forward to reading this book! Buddy was one of The Giants of Steel Guitar and an inspiration to all of us Steel Guitarists!

Several years ago, I remember asking some of our mutual Friends in the Steel Guitar World, whom they thought was the Best Player of Steel Guitar. Immediately without hesitation they all said Buddy Emmons. Those Steel Men were Speedy West, Don Helms, Zane Beck and others. All of these people, were Steel Guitar Hall of Fame Members themselves.

Personally, I was invited to a Steel Guitar Show, when I was about 20 years old. I had never seen a Big Name Steel Guitarist and really had only been playing pedal Steel for about a year and half. Oh boy was I in for a Treat! I still can remember three or four of the songs from that Steel show that he played. Some of the songs were "Greensleeves," "King of the Road," "Raisin'The Dickens." That was 45 years ago, during February 1977, I decided that day to go out and get myself a double neck Steel Guitar.

Then I would see him again a few months later at a Steel Show that Scotty produced with him along with Fiddle Virtuoso Buddy Spiker, Guitarist Bobby Caldwell and other top Musicians. That time was to showcase their new L.P. Album titled "Buddies!"

Still later I would also be at Scotty's Big Steel Guitar Convention, when Buddy Emmons and other Top Musicians recorded the Double Album "Buddy Emmons Live at The International Steel Guitar Convention. I would see and hear Buddy several times more over the years. He was such a Musical Genius and The Steel Guitar was his Love. He was a Hero to so many of us! I often think of him and still love listening to his recordings. He was a Gift to all of us, and especially in the Steel Guitar World!

Again I can't wait to read my copy of this book! Thank You to the Author of this book. It will be forever in my personal collection and a treasure.

Terry Wood

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 29 Jun 2022 2:20 pm

Steve, is there a way to get an autographed copy of the paperback book? Signed by you, of course, not Buddy! I wish...

Fish · Post by **Fish** » 1 Jul 2022 7:52 am

Thank you Per, Lucky Oceans, Robert Kramer, Roger, Jerry Jones, and everyone else kind enough to post a message. This has truly been a labor of love and the hardest creative challenge I've ever faced. Thank you for your support!

John McClung: it's good to hear from you. Regarding your request for an autographed copy, I am sincerely flattered. I haven't worked out the logistics for this as of yet. It's complicated! In the University Press world, I can buy copies of the book from the publisher at 40% off. In order to send you an autographed copy, I would first have to buy it myself, then sign it and take it to UPS to ship it out.

Please give me time to think this through so I can come up with an efficient delivery method. Let me put it this way: I'm open to suggestions.

Bill Ladd · Post by **Bill Ladd** » 1 Jul 2022 8:07 am

Fish wrote:Let me put it this way: I'm open to suggestions.

Can I just send mine to you once I receive it?

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